Embroidering the Everyday: Found, Stitch and Paint

Description

Cas Holmes draws inspiration from the 'everyday' in this thoughtful book, using materials and subjects close to home to create exquisite works connected to time and place. Our connection to the 'everyday'and the 'domestic' provides a wealth of inspiration and continues to inform the creative processes of artist Cas Holmes. Resourcefulness and 'making do' using materials and subjects available to hand, results in lyrical works connected to time and place. Working as a 'nomad at home', Cas invites us to re-look at the world and use the limitations sometimes imposed by geographic area or individual circumstances as a rich resource to develop ideas for mixed media textiles in a more thoughtful way. Practical projects and ideas will be exemplified by some of the leading practitioners in textile art today. Chapters would include:'Kitchen cupboards', which features prints with teaboxes, stains with tea, stitch a teabag; Window views; sustainable stitch (using newspapers, and machine stitch letters); textiles inspired by local walks.

Cas Holmes is one of UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College. She is the author of The Found Object in Textile Art and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines including The Quilter, and has contributed to Workshop on the Web. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.

'If you're feeling a bit short on inspiration, this book from Cas Holmes is just the thing to get you finding the wonderful in everyday items' -- Simply Sewing 'A plethora of ideas and techniques' -- The Quilter 'There is so much inspiration here, from the ideas themselves to the many ways of developing them into textiles. ... Much wisdom is tucked away in this book.' -- Maggie Grey * WOW Book Looks Newlsetter * 'The book is full of ideas and small exercises that may not take long in themselves but will fire off other ideas and send you in new directions' -- Alex Messenger * Book Treads *